Portal, V6.1
Prepare to develop process applications
Understand the application development tools available to you. Assign the work of process design, portlet development, and portal administration to meet the needs of your team. Set up a staging server on which to deploy the portlets of your business process applications for testing. Determine whether your development environment has the JAR files required by the Task Processing portlet.
Before you begin to develop business process applications to run in the WebSphere Portal environment, ensure that you have configured business process integration for your portal environment.
- Development tools for process integration
Verify that the supported versions of required software products are available for your development team to use in the integrated WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Process Server environment.- Integration developer roles
Assign work appropriately for your integration development team. Plan how to delegate work among the process designers, the application developers, and administrators.- Integration development environment
Test the complete portal-based business process application on a staging system that comprises a portal server and a process server and that is available to everyone on the integration development team. When testing the components of a business process application, enable IBM WAS application security to correctly display each user's personal tasks.- JAR files needed by the Task Processing portlet
If your application development tools differ from the IBM toolset for process integration, ensure that your development environment references all of the JAR files required for the Task Processing portlet to compile successfully.
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Developing custom user interfaces for process integrationNext topic:
Enabling business processes for the portal
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Enabling process integration
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